S tier: Hannah Montana Linux, AmogOS, ChromeOS, Windows 11, iPhone. A tier: Ubuntu, LFS, Kali, RHEL, Nyarch. C tier: MX Linux. D tier: Linux Mint. F tier: Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora, CachyOS, SteamOS

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[+] 136 points 9 months ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Every day I learn a new word from you intelligent fucks

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  • [–] 38 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    What’s the red Naruto swirl one?

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  • [–] 55 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    It's a spinoff of Ubuntu called Debian

    /s

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  • [–] 27 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Not sure if trolling or genuinely curious, but it's Debian.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Debian? But I barely know ian!

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  • [–] 35 points 9 months ago

    No UwUntu, 0/10

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  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    This tier list looking quite sus

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    I get what Canonical was going for with snaps but wow did they ever ruin Ubuntu's reputation. It used to be the clear choice for anyone who wanted a generic Linux where you don't have to configure everything yourself. Sure some people didn't like Unity but the core distro still worked well and was stable. With snaps, package management has become more complex than other distros while decreasing performance if memory limited (and who isn't nowadays). The number of times I've had something not work in the "stable" snap package is far too many, and it's pretty much always fixed by installing the same package with apt.

    I get the reasoning for sandboxing applications, but they needed to wait until it was more stable to make the default. At this rate I doubt we're ever going to get a truly mainstream desktop Linux distro rivaling macos and Windows...

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    In my opinion, Linux Mint has filled this gap. If anyone asks its a good recommendation to ensure they don't have to jump through hoops to get a stable system out of the gate. Essentially the stability of debian and usability of Ubuntu without snap

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago*

    100%. It's the goto starter distro for good reason. Ux is familiar, and it works ootb.

    They've also got the LMDE, which is mint based on Debian rather than Ubuntu. Haven't tried it personally, but I've heard good things from people who are determined not to touch anything Ubuntu adjacent for whatever reason, whilst still providing an ootb environment that is stable and ux friendly.

    Ubuntu is Debian based anyway, so I'd imagine parts of Ubuntu have been pulled out to bridge the gap between Debian and mint, but given mint are anti snap; that's something that definitely wouldn't be copied over to LMDE (and like you pointed out, is disabled in standard mint anyway).

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I liked Unity, but Ubuntu has always been a crashy mess.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    I liked unity when they were trying to do interesting changes. I especially liked the attempt at making apps work with the menu at the top of the screen instead of the top of the window (Mac OS style).

    When they gave up on that, it became pointless with nothing useful to add.

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    [–] 18 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    If you ever have a wound, I will spit in it.

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago

    OP forgot to put the legends: S - Sucks Ass A - Ass B - Barely C - Ckinda mid D - Dope F - For Real For Real

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Oh so we're fighting today.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    How have I not heard of AmongOS?

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    [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    100% accurate. I can tell you put a lot of research into it. Thank you for your work.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    Mint is D for Delicious πŸ˜‹

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    The tierlist of every person going to an "opensource conference".

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    From shit to fantastic.

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  • No mention of Microsoft Bob, BillindaOS11 in S tier. Obvious anti-MSBob slander, 0/10 ragebait

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)
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  • [–] [S] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    even on this joke list:

    NixOS Erasure!

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    Trolling along.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Needs more Nyarch linux

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Why is the best in red and worst in green? I never understood this rating scheme's color choices.

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    The S stands for "Shit"?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I see you are not serious about the list. If you were you'd have red star Linux and justin Bieber Linux up there with Hannah Montana Linux and amogOS

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago*

    I give this tier list an S for not including the only distro that deserves its own tier below F:

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Nice

    I agree

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    smh Bazzite doesn't even get on the list

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  • Gentoo is so based it transcends this list

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Would be better if specifically Windows 11 and 8.1 were at top of S tier above the other versions

    +Windows Me. Still the GOAT

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Heresy! AmogOS should be S+ tier.

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  • [+] -6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    It's an automatic downvote for not including NixOS, despite having other niche distributions on the list (what even is the one at C tier?). Also, Windows? That is not even closely related to the Unix family of operating systems, let alone a Linux distribution.

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